CDFA activates more fairgrounds for fire evacuations

09/30/20 10:11 AM By Brad Hooker

CDFA has activated more fairgrounds to act as animal shelters, evacuation centers and fire camps.

Disease, wildfires and rats: Water quality regulation raises more issues for growers

09/30/20 9:25 AM By Brad Hooker

Farmers worry that a regulation requiring vegetative buffers along waterways could create habitat for invasive pests as well as fuel for wildfires.

Daybreak: Drought deepens in California

09/29/20 10:38 AM By Brad Hooker

Housing the homeless on a farm * Drought deepens * New aid bill keeps ag provisions * CFAP-2 will aid farmers into 2021

Wine industry: Extend disaster payments for wildfires

09/22/20 11:47 AM

Wine groups in California, Washington and Oregon are calling on Congress to extend the wildfire and hurricane relief program.

Daybreak: Glyphosate as a tool for sustainability

09/17/20 1:08 PM By Brad Hooker

Conservationists eye SGMA fallowing * Trump to GOP: Back ‘higher’ COVID aid * Are farm payments ‘socialist?’

USDA expands California SNAP benefits during wildfires

09/17/20 12:52 PM By Brad Hooker

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has approved California waivers for purchasing foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Daybreak: Newsom extends paid sick leave

09/11/20 7:35 PM By Brad Hooker

Costa talks aid bill, fires and farm bill * Dems: COVID aid not dead yet

Daybreak: USDA offers farmers help with wildfires

08/25/20 4:58 PM By Brad Hooker

UC ditches plastic containers * Cut flowers on the outs * Trump: China trade war a winning issue * Trump extends Food Box program

Daybreak: DPR extends neonics comment period

08/24/20 11:27 AM By Brad Hooker

Newsom responds to farmworker infections * Ross: State can be more diverse * Eligibility rules may challenge big farms * Trump promotes food boxes

Daybreak: Will others copy Mexico’s glyphosate ban?

08/21/20 1:07 PM By Brad Hooker

Incentives bills for ag are cut * Free N95s for smoke * AG takes on egg farm * H-2A approvals up * Organic calls for climate aid

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Tom Halverson, CoBank

This week’s Open Mic guest is Tom Halverson, president and CEO of CoBank. The balance of debt stocks of U.S. farmers has grown during the downturn in the overall farm economy, but thankfully, the load of debt service has been eased by the tailwinds of increased global trade and higher commodity prices as well as very low interest rates. CoBank’s Halverson expects borrowing rates to remain low and farm income to improve as global commodity stocks remain tight in the near future. Halverson is hopeful the Biden administration will pursue an aggressive global trade strategy and says the ag industry must be prepared to defend its position as part of the solution in any climate policy.

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